Melania Trump poses for photos with Chinese children near the panda enclosure at a zoo in Beijing, ChinaAP

A panda eats baboo during Melania Trump’s visit to the Beijing Zoo.EPA

First Lady Melania Trump has checked out the pandas at the Beijing zoo, before being serenaded in English and in Chinese by elementary school children.

Trump looked on with the students from the Shija slementary school as one panda chomped down on a late breakfast of bamboo shoots and leaves. She then presented the students with gifts of plush bald eagle toys.

Parts of the zoo in Beijing’s western fringe were shut down for the visit, but Wang Xumei, pushing her 1-year-old granddaughter in a stroller, says she wasn’t put off. “She’s very beautiful and we’re very happy to have her and the American president in Beijing,” Wang says. “Come back soon.”